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The Romance of the State And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics by Ashis Nandy
  

The Romance of the State And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics

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The Romance of the State And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics by Ashis Nandy

The essays in this volume written as part of psychological biography of the Indian state, explore the scope, limits, and fate of some key concepts in the mainstream culture of politics that have come to structure Indias public life. These concepts constitute the dominant public ideology within the consciousness of the expanding middle classes in the country and they range from concrete concerns like secularism and development to more abstract ones such as dissent and history. The essays, mostly inquire into the culture of the Indian state, suggest tangentially the directions in which to move for a cultural and psychological biography of the state. The idea of a moderate state, which was of a state that was neither over-burdened with the responsibility of engineering all aspects of its citizens lives nor of seeking to extend the market and global capital into every corner of every society, was not unknown to all societies at all times. While such moderate states may not have been great successes and may not have survived, neither can the modern nation-state system claim to be the greatest success story of all times. The question of its survival as an arrangement of political communities, too, remains to be finally decided. The essays in this book explore the vicissitudes of the idea of the modern state under different cultural and psychological conditions.

About the Author

Ashis Nandy is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. He is a distinguished political psychologist, sociologist of science, and a futurist.

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Publication date

1st November 2007

Author

Ashis Nandy

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Publisher

OUP India

Format

Paperback
232 pages

Categories

Political science & theory
Political structure & processes

ISBN

9780195693331

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